Electroacupuncture prevents cognitive deficits in pilocarpine-epileptic rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 384, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 234-238

  Dos Santos Jr , Jair Guilherme ^a   Tabosa, Angela ^a   Martins Do Monte, Fabrício Hoffmann ^b   Blanco, Mirian Marcela ^a   De Oliveira Freire, Anaflávia ^a   Mello, Luiz Eugênio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SANTA CATARINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Electroacupuncture; Learning; Memory; Rats; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

FENCLONINE; PILOCARPINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACK; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; EPILEPSY; HEAD; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; EPILEPSY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20644444993     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.04.079     Document Type: Article

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